Large Music Library Support crashes Songbird

same problem on mac and vista with around 16 thousand songs

Same here with 59k songs... I like SB over all, but the crashes are killing me =(

It may not be crashing - just taking a long time. I've tried searching on a library with nearly 70,000 songs. It took a while but eventually it finished.

I've the same problem. When I started songbird the library will be actually for nearly 1 hour. I've 25.000 songs with a lot of informations into ID3tag 2. That's to much for songbird.

I have a question: when typing a search query, is it initiating a new search each time a new character is typed in the search field? I'd image it would be more efficient to wait a moment to ensure the user has finished typing their search query before initiating a search or have a button the user must click first.

Just reporting in to say that the slow search (sometimes up to a minute) is the most annoying bug in songbird. It mostly happens for a long search term I guess, as normally it responds pretty snappy. I've got 9k in songs (43GB), which I think shouldn't be too much for a music library app to handle. Using Ubuntu.

Why does songbird load all these things??? I mean with 43BG of music it would be best to load every upcoming 5 songs in your playlist, won't it? And for the searching part, after every symbol you type it runs a search. For example a search for: Old and Wise, would result in 10 searches! If SB just waits until you hit enter it would be a lot faster. But on the other hand, with a library of around 90GB of music, DON'T be surprised that it takes a little while.

same problem here.. around 59K songs and it horribly slow. makes the program sort of useless.... guess ill just go back to itunes....

Same for me, I use Songbird since it is released... they never got this unter controll... If they don't change that i will stop using it...

same problem, Please fix this guys! We are counting on you to free us from ITUNES!

I've just installed the version 1.1.2 and now sb searches much faster on my library (about 90GB). You should only search, if your library displayed completely, that is there shouldn't be any search term before. If not, the search is slow again (but better than before, I think).
I guess, its because sb wants to display all the songs in your library before it performs the query and that's the reason for the wait time, not the search itself.
Pete

I'm having this problem as well.

I'm using Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146

Windows XP sp2
p4 3.0 GHz
1 gig ram

22000 items, 130 gigs

it freezes for some seconds while Im typing something in the search box. Im using Ubuntu 8.04

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Freezing while typing in the searchbox.